A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects pdf

Henry Rosemont a obtenu son doctorat. en philosophie de l'Université de Washington, et a poursuivi des études postdoctorales en linguistique (et politique) avec Noam Chomsky au MIT. Ses domaines de recherche et d'écriture sont la philosophie et la religion chinoises - en particulier le confucianisme ancien - la théorie morale et politique, la philosophie de la religion et la philosophie du langage. Il a écrit A Chinese Mirror (1991), Ratioality & Religious Experience (2001) et, avec Huston Smith, Is There a Universal ‘Grammar’ of Religion? (2007). Il a édité et/ou traduit dix autres livres, dont Explorations in Early Chinese Cosmology (1984), Leibniz : Writings on China (avec D.J. Cook, 1994), Chinese Texts & Philosophical Contexts, et avec Roger T.Ames, The Analects of Confucius: Une traduction philosophique (1998) et Le classique du respect de la famille (2008). De 1982 à 1984, puis de 1993 à 1994, il a été professeur Fulbright de philosophie et de linguistique à l'Université Fudan de Shanghai, où il est maintenant professeur consultant principal et professeur invité d'études religieuses à l'Université Brown.

A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects pdf par Henry Rosemont

The major purpose of this little book is to make it easier for you the reader to come to terms with, and profit from one that is even smaller in the original, the Analects, which is made up of a number of statements of, by and about Confucius, the Latinized rendering of the name of China’s most famous thinker. Further on I shall have much to say about that book, but first I need to say a few things about this one. It is intended basically as a preface or prolegomenon to the Analects rather than a synopsis of its contents, perhaps best construed as a tool: I have put together a series of comments, hints, finding lists and suggestions to aid readers in coming to their own interpretation of the book, necessary if it is to enrich and possibly transform their philosophical and/or religious orientations. The 511 little “sayings” that comprise the book have spoken to countless thousands across the ages, but they have not said the same things even to all readers within a single time period, let alone over the course of two millennia, in very different cultural circumstances.